• Education reform: Replay our live chat with school policymakers Richard McLellan, John Austin The live chat will discuss the Oxford Foundation's latest proposals to expand education options.

• Davenport president's $581,000 compensation is highest among Michigan's private colleges Davenport University President Richard Pappas is the highest compensated leader of a private, nonprofit college in Michigan, bringing in $581,564 in 2010, according to a presidential pay survey.

• Check out inside of Grand Valley State University's new $40 million business center in Grand Rapids Inside the newest addition to Grand Valley State University’s campus in downtown Grand Rapids, what promises to be an innovative center for academics and community outreach is taking shape.

• Jackson Community College trustees will set study session to discuss authorization of charter school The study session will take place in the first two weeks of January. Trustees likely would vote on whether or not to authorize the school at their regular Jan. 14 meeting.

• WMU plans to renovate, raze historic buildings bittersweet to East Campus supporters "It would be a shame if the entire East Hall structure, which dominated the city of Kalamazoo for decades, would be torn down to just the center structure. We'd lose character in the city," said former WMU alumni relations director Tom Coyne.